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Quote by Louis Dudek

“The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.”

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Louis Dudek was a Canadian poet born on February 6, 1918, and passed away on March 23, 2001. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound depiction of the Canadian natural landscape. more

“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...”

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Author:Will Self

“In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.”

Possibility Brother Saving Sister Tibet Brother Sister

Author:Richard Gere

“Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.”

Ifs Kind Form Wealth Responsibility Too Much Our Society Dictator Great Power Great Responsibility Too Much Power

Author:Will Self

“Things are only boring if you are boring.”

Ifs Boring

Author:Will Self

“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.”

Art Television Architecture Restaurants Cake Apology Jane Conceptual Art

Author:Will Self

“I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.”

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Author:Kingsley Amis

“Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.”

Common Common Sense Motto Peril My Motto

Book:Stanley And The Women

Source: Stanley And The Women

“It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.”

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Book:The King's English

Source: The King's English

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